1

The Accounting Historians Notebook, October 2009 5
Criscione Wins the Thomas J. Burns
Accounting Biographical Research Award
Dr. E. Richard Criscione won the
2009 Academy of Accounting
Historians Thomas J. Burns Ac-counting
Biographical Research
Award. The award was presented
to Dr. Criscione August 2 at the
Academy business meeting in
New York City.
The Academy of Accounting His-torians
annually honors as recipi-ent
of the award an individual
who has conducted outstanding
biographical research in the disci-pline
of accountancy. The award
includes a plaque and a financial
honorarium. Dr. Thomas J.
Burns, for whom the award is
named, was a long-time professor
at Ohio State University and a
past president of the Academy of
Accounting Historians.
Criscione, of Morehead State Uni-versity
in Kentucky, was honored
for his recent book on Abraham
Briloff. The book, Abraham J.
(Abe) Briloff: A Biography, is
part of the Studies in the Develop-ment
of Accounting Thought se-ries.
The selection committee
consisted of Dale Flesher
(chairman), Richard Vanger-meersch,
and Sally Schultz, who
unanimously agreed on Cris-cione’s
work from a field of five
strong nominations.
Past recipients of the award were:
2008 Stephen A. Zeff
2007 Donald Tidrick
2006 Richard Vangermeersch,
2005 Dale L. Flesher
Dale Flesher presents Burns award to E. Richard Criscione